Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756496AbXFFQ5T (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:57:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751607AbXFFQ5M (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:57:12 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:36929 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbXFFQ5M (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:57:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:56:20 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jesper Juhl cc: Christoph Pleger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Size of kernel modules In-Reply-To: <9a8748490706060851g59f3043ah82a0390ffc2b290b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20070606170534.67b5dea9.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> <9a8748490706060851g59f3043ah82a0390ffc2b290b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 26 On Jun 6 2007 17:51, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 06/06/07, Christoph Pleger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately >> after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package >> which contains the Ubuntu-modified sources of the linux kernel. I >> extracted the resulting tar.bz2-file, copied the configuration of the >> currently running kernel to .config and created a file localversion-irb >> which contains the line "-irb" and then called "make menuconfig". > > You forgot "make oldconfig". When you copy in a .config file from a > different kernel, always do oldconfig (just get in the habbit, if the > .config from the same kernel it's harmless). oldconfig is automatically called AFAICS. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/